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World Tour
En route to Japan via Hawaii
January 1935
Jan 11, 1935
Upton Sinclair meeting, thousands in huge hail
where usually boxing or wrestling. Old farmer type outside :- “It don’t look
as if dinner were cooked, no siree!” from Iowa or Kansas, thin face, lanky.
Journalist comes and sits right in the front -
“Come and speak on the microphone” — lower middle class. I had to bow and
get on the platform.
Epic News January
Olympic auditorium, number of middle aged
people, quite a church going type, (Methodist type), a few catholics. People
with banners, EPIC across breast, people who are easily swayed, like a Nazi
audience in Germany.
Those who would be naturalised citizens of the
USA. A few women who are made-up, these probably of German or British
origin, or farming stock.
“If they’ve got no money, they’re just common
people, if they’ve gotten money they are high class. They just stole the
election.
Chairman - “Great United States, true
Americans”. Star spangled banner, all stand.
Chairman introduces the judge who looks like an
Italian or Greek pugilist. Will Kindig shouts - “Give him the works”,
Sinclair comes in, glasses, great applause. Dark suit, brown tie, soft
collar like a preacher, studious.
Chairman - “Three financiers came from the east
to tell us Californians what we must do. they come representing Dupont etc,
representing the sum of $37 billion. (pause for shouts of disapproval).
Attempting to break down American Institutions;
Band of unemployed followers. Men in office are
smug and don’t care a damn about your conditions. Let them go out and know
what it is to be without food.
Epic party will put full ticket for spring
elections. Stand by :- Hirsch; before broadcast. Sing songy voice, soft,
rather childish, nervous smile.
R’s message
He’ll have to make up his mind whether he’ll
stand by the system. He’s trying to help the people so far as it can be done
without hurting the books of the rich.
Governor Merriam’s message (booh, booh), taxes
will fall on the poor. (short snapping sentences).
Complete breakdown of capital is directly
before us. Borrowing to live on is the death gasp of capitalism.
Bribes have been offered and turned down.
Municipal elections in spring.
Play “Depression Island” is to be made into a
motion picture.
Sham prosperity which is being produced by
Government borrowing and spending.
Democracy
Long lead.
Great change which is coming throughout the
world. If not peaceful will come by violence. We do not want violence,
firstly the people.
Boots, brilliant, yellow socks. Then puts on a
grey tweed coat.
Can see no press, no motion picture men, no
cameramen.
Man in Public Office
Heiser :- We’re going to have a Commissioner of
police, at least one who could pass an intelligence test. Even Boston is
waking up.
Mr John Pearce, (old worker at CP Scotts), Mr
Schorr, Sapherman at Salford.
Purpose now is to coordinate all the consumers
co-operators into one great outfit with production for use. Using the
consumers channels to accumulate funds to get means for products.
We’ll ask the state government to turn over the
government oil lands (tide lands on the beaches). The biggest oil basin of
the world, and we’ll work it ourselves.
We’ll produce from those tiddlers, produce our
own petrol for our cooperatives, the end goal is owned by the state,
production for use.
Utopia, (primarily educational), epi*** for
political action. In cooperative endeavour we come together. Technocrats,
Utopia. Up S - 2nd speech. (Jutting upper teeth, smile). Telegram to Merrin,
Mooney case - ask you to pardon, Mooney immediately cheers. Aline Barnsdall
Not a great orator, same tone, simple speech,
chats on, monotonous tone with the audience. Gives the small details about
the price of the book; about finances, does not leave it to the chairman.
Humourous sallies.
There’ll be a State income tax.
Without notes, not an actor, few gestures,
hesitates now and then. “we want you to have books, educate yourself”.
Fallacy in social credit. Came from England, Major Doughty started it 15
years ago. Completeness of the fallacy.
Nothing but a disguised form of inflation.
They’ll give you credit instead of money. It’s substituting one kind of
money for another. But it’s going to leave the means of ownership in the
hands of private people.
Same thing about the Townsend Place, I lost
votes because I was honest enough. The Government is going to get it by 10%
tax. That’ll get a fifth of the total needed. Wheat grower 15% tax, miller
20%, raises the price of bread.
Good tempered, humourously laughing crowd.
“If the crisis came 12 times as fast, what
would we have?” voice
- “Utopia”.
Townsend, an old gentleman who comes from Long
Beach, where they put you in jail. Of course he doesn’t understand what the
profit system is. Subscribes to the Epic News. Financial nationalisation
of movement - bad.
“I’m no longer a candidate so I’m not sure I
know everything as I used to!”
Questions
Please mention L.A. Railway strike.
Are we going to recall Governor Merriam?
Criminal Syndicalism cases. Should a labourer
receive as much as a banker or a writer? (Avoids this, not good at
answering. But improves.)
Third party by 1936?
If President R. follows his plan of one step to
the right and two to the left, then he’ll have confidence. If two to the
right and one to the left, then we’ll have a third party in 1936.
Merriam has been taking my platform piecemeal
ever since.
Ham Colton is a mugwump, is a creative who sits
on the fence with his mug on one side and his wump on the other. I’m opposed
to giving the unemployed money without worHuey Long - a symbol of discontent
in the south. Improves at questions, now some use.
“We’d like you to know that we elected you but
they stole our votes.”
Girl - blue trousers, comes up with a question.
“A scholar in politics”
(Teather - Whats 2 + 2? Boy (6year of age) 4.
Teacher - That’s pretty good. Boy “Pretty good? Hell that’s perfect!”
Sunday. January . 13th 1935
Father Divine, letter from the faithful.
The subconscious has become the conscious, the
inward eye has become the outward eye. It is wonderful that for 50 years I
have wondered whether I know that God has an address and it is New York.
I’ve had a letter from God, so sweet. Tunes -
Father Divine is God. God it is wonderful, Spirit sent me.
Are you travelling far father?.
Father Is God. God has come down on earth in
Father Divine.
Drummer with sticks on balcony, - He made my
hair grow onto my head oh Father Divine, (Negress, “He was bald”)
Father Divine is God. Through Father Divine has
fixed up everything OK for you.
Father Divine has written to you. (Wonderful).
Songs
God, Father Divine alone shall rule.
Food :- Rice, chicken, potatoes, ham, macaroni
cheese. All passed round, not allowed to put plates on table (“Thank yon
Father”) Sending these letters from your kingdom.
All sing as going round. Negro boys clap, huge
lips. Sway, some abnormal eyes. TB case, pale, thin arms, a cross section of
women, Heaven is here tonight.
Greeting, “Peace brother”. The spirit told me
to go by bus to New York.
Father Divine Is God.
Photo of Negro with moustache, bald, striped
tie, watch chain hanging.
Glaring colours of Negresses, white teeth, huge
lips. All eat while they pray.
Waitress jigs rhythmically like a chorus girl.
Thank you Father. Dinner 15 cents.
Father is cleaning up our Californian politics.
He’ll help the unemployed, they can’t live on $6 a week and only have beans.
This is a sacrament. (Silver bangle on Negress).
And his name shall be called wonderful and his name.
(If you ever see a copper, knock him down).
Come and dine, you can dine at his table all
the time. He can feed the multitude, he gives coffee instead of wine. Come
in of C and *.
Negress in bright colours on staircase on the
steps. Balconies all around full of people.
Quickening of the body takes place. You lose
that foot. I felt my hand going up. I wriggled and giggled. It makes you
happy and healthy. He’s God Almighty, Thankyou Father. Father Divine will
pounce on you. He’s God in the flesh. God in a body.
You can’t sleep, “Father Divine” Ha Ha -
laughter. the harder you wrestle the tighter it gets hold of you. He’s God
in person.
They pass round tooth picks. Waitresses with
Peace on their caps. Lot of deformed people, hunchbacks.
“1 was right down, flat on my back. I had to
recognise Father
Divine or I’d die. He’d cure anything, I had a
cancerous growth,
I went to Father, I couldn’t turn my head. Tell
me I don’t know
who he is, he’s God, I was healed.”
If you walk in Father’s spirit, you’ll be happy
all day.
What I know about God is that feeling in my
hands. What is that which controls me in my body which. “He’s all over me
and he keeps me alive.” Father is keeping me alive (German woman, nearly
hysterical ****fool) They say crazy woman. Negress “Peace” Negro with white
long hair.
On staircase Negro woman in green with fur
collar clapping like chorus girl. Another does like a clog dance. White
girl, blonde (about 40) does a Charleston step.
“Very much alive. Huge fat negro. woman with
huge imitation pearls in car. One, like Italian goes round and round. Old
negro
**** claps and swings and cries and laughs. On
and on. Negress, black and old in green you angels ain’t going to stop me
from speaking. He healed me from head to toe, healed me of a manurism in my
throat, healed me of a throat. I bust the drum of my right ear all to
pieces, he healed it. Healed me of heart disease. Healed me of tumour.
I couldn’t sing, but Father Divine started me
to bellow. I can’t sing, but now I can holler. He’s God.
They were going to take my eyes out at the
hospital, they were going to take my teeth out. I said “don’t take my tongue
out, I’ll need that. I was given up for dead, but I’m here and I’m here to
stay. (laughter).
I was drunk and I took a knife and I cut the
vein. I thought of Father Divine and looked again and it was cured.
(wonderful). Come and dine, come and dine, at the table of Father Divine,
he’ll give you coffee instead of wine, come and dine. “Pass to the right,
pass to the right, keep the tea cups going and your blessings flowing.
“Drive in sermons, girl in trousers, pretty and
brings order to the car, places attachable tray on car.
Mr Hague
There is no menace of war with Japan. One
doesn’t start to fight with one’s best customer, look at the trade
relations.
Japanese people have never had a thought of
coming over and attacking the west coast of the USA.
Their attitude is purely defensive. We don’t
want aggravation in the Pacific. We want to get rid of the Philippines etc.
R’s policy is one of withdrawal from the
possession of territory in the Pacific. We’re keeping the Hawaii’s as
defence.
We can’t compete with Japan, march on accord of
cost of transportation.
Only menace of war between USA and Japan is
that they believe in reincarnation. They think that they will be coming
back, that they are the future in Japan. They look forward several
centuries. We say “apres nous le deluge”
Posterity hasn’t done anything for us, does not
count for the Japanese.
The Japanese say, “If there has to be
inevitable war between USA and Japan, let us have it now so your children
need not suffer”. That’s the only danger.
Professor from Denver said that sirens of
police bringing gold from mint in S. C to Denver : - Japanese menace? No
Internal mint changes. Little things which make people fear. No paper gave
any mention.
Japanese came here went in farming, worked
longer hours, whole family worked. No Sacramento valley, whole territory
being occupied by Japs, Basis exclusion act.
Not that the Japs are undesirable Citizens. Go
into Courts. If Californians were just as law abiding as the Japanese, the
amount of crimes of violence would be reduced by 75%. They are most law
abiding and they take care of their own. No instance of a single Jap. asking
for public support. They have their societies and they look after their own.
Not a single Japanese in prostitution cases,
home for delinquent girls, not one Japanese.
Desert skies are still above us. We have had to
bring rivers here trapping water, now the Colorado.
Tuesday Jan 15
Hollywood - car — Tejon Pass, grapevine (name)
just missed Bakersfield. Cotton fields next to grapevine, umbrella tree
spreading. Narcissus blooming on the desert. Apples grow on the desert,
delicious, burning cars great trucks, lorries, miles of vineyards.
On Easter Sunday morning there are sunrise
services on the top of the hills around. Most people get-up. Many go up at
midnight to wait all night in cars. At one time during the service they let
loose white doves which fly over the congregation.
Wednesday Jan 16
Cabbage
Rupert Hayley - Their Homes are nearly always
like one egg on top of another. No news at all. About two weeks ago, family
of the name of Hughes came over after some trouble. Welsh origin.
Motto : Heb ddu, Heb ddun, heb ildigon.
Which is a joke, considering my atheist views.
Do you like car homes.
I thought his characters were Impossible that
they could not exist. Which seemed to me to be most jovial and lively. You
just can’t draw characters like that condensing a nation. You’ll find a
clown in a church and in a gallery of laughing clowns you’ll find an
undertaker.
Welsh came up to me and said something in an
unintelligible language. Witty, dry humour, quiet quotes Abraham Lincoln.
Crossed Wales twice. (Baron Reichberg just married rich Widow)
Le Beaufort, spy in Germany for 6 months,
interviews Hindenburg, got hold of his nephew, from Luxembourg I was famous
in Berlin for champagne and women and *****, but that was my policy. I had
palm trees but in my ~ and would pour champagne in. Published book Behind
the German veil.
I used to invite leading staff officers, they
were asinine, stupid. They’d give away valuable secrets to a neutral. Can’t
imagine British Officers going to a neutral in the Savoy or thE Ritz and
telling about secrets.
Heartily agreed with L.G on Paschendal and the
madness of sending 600,000 men to destruction in the mine covered areas.
Used to send news to the Dutch Tel. during the
war. Used tc cross to Switzerland.
They thought I was harmless in Berlin ~ crying
angry.
R. Hughes, stocky, thickset, glasses,
unexpressive, solid eyes.
Spies in Holland, London. Capt. Reilly knew of
part played b~ the Jews in Secret Service.
(Gareth Hughes, 1539 Echo Park Avenue) (send
Gwynn Jones’s trans Everyman.)
Gareth Hughes
Son of John Elias Hughes. Eisteddford mawr, cor
mawr ir Llanelli. King in Hamlet in Lianelli.
Welsh terrier who was called Parry NB. G went
away, stayed 3 day5 in bed, then vanished, no trace.
White Roses first quote, of Julius Caesar,
Shakespeare. Very emotional very delicate. Art treasures. Love of art,
beauty, cathedral. Very lovable, boyish in enthusiasm.
Lost $200,000 lives too much in the past,
idealist, good, share last dime, worries too much.
Girl - drunk at 75 m.p.h - arrested.
Like picture of Lord Byrons, shack exterior,
interior sc different, church effect. In his old home there were glass
windows Arthurian legends. Two large silver candles - oriental] influence,
very artistic. Very suggestive he had dreams of.
Ben Jonson - first editor.
Latent talent in Wales there are discussions,
Bernhards in the village.
Everymans eyes flashed would love to do it.
Lovely silver tray, pitiful splendour, feeding
passion, he’d weep
- temperamental. Over phone, “yes
honey, no dear.” Chinese
screen, loving birds, Bohemian religious
painting, leopard skir
on the couch.
Mr & Mrs Evans y sion - says few words of
welsh.
If he had not lost money, he was going to start
Shakespearean guild. Chair of dramatic art - Welsh union. Cousin of Eddie
Parry.
Read passage of Welsh about prizes he gave at
the county school, Llanelli. He’d just been reading King Lear, editions of
Milton.
Loves the legitimate, hates the movies, empty,
shallow.
“Light stage is dead here.” Going to Fritz
Leiber tonight. Doa had just had 5 puppies. Character in the Welsh villages.
Lack of self - consciousness. The hangover, rhythmical quality of 1 speech.
Monday. January 16
Addressed the University Club on World Air
Forces to Prevent War but felt tired, so I read the paper and it was dull
and only lasted 15 minutes.
Then talked with Dr Carruthers and he will be
Sec. of the Commonwealth. Sent cable to Dr Jacklin $2.92.
Called to see Fred Hague of the Times.
6.45 Milligan a radio editor of the Examiner,
tough, looking ii a cowboy. Car outside, off we went.
Warner Brothers guard stopped us, “I’ve been
broadcasting I Golf match all day. I’m of the nervous type. I’ve got to
doing something all the time”.
Through the sets brilliant lights of Warner
Brothers to stage Girl typist, much painted with liptstick, - “You’ll have
to photographed”.
Looked through glass window to where jazz band
was playing shirt sleeves, it was 7.50.
Then to a big hail, platform, place for jazz
band. Huge silver trees all around.
Empty rows, table with microphone, brilliant
colours, talk~ finished just in time. Over by one, the musicians, crept in
-listened.
This is presented to you by L.A. Examiner. Just
before this after the jazz, so & so’s shop, barbers, socks etc.
“Hurry up, in 20 seconds this stage has to be
used for effects for Napoleon’s great battle on Jan 14! Rushed of f.
Looked through glass:— Napoleon’s battle in
shirt sleeves. To~ fellows, black hair, thugs, one tall fellow, that’s
Napoleon’s battle noises - thunder, sheet of iron. Then the first train; one
man tough, turning a wheel, untidy.
Telephone calls, all manner of people, Madness,
photographers.
“When I say colony, I mean colony. blah, blah,
blah.” Click! “Now look dramatic, point out that finger menacingly.” I did
so burst out laughing.
Tel Will you speak to Jonathan’s club? Women's
athletic club? Drove out, pouring rain, bright lights, some of the sets
still working. Passed big Greek columns from old picture, square covered
with piles of logs.
They had never asked to look at my speech, I
could have said anything, never tried out my voice.
“That’s radical”. Then Milligan took me to
Kawafuku restaurant to the Japanese dinner. Mr Hon the Japanese Consul.
Manchester - body of the Post, Records and the
Daily News. Harry Carr of the Times.
Francis Co. Jan~1935 Chester
Howell
One difference between the English and us,
Lionel Curtiss can invite Keyman and it can be done.
Large group who resent foreign affairs. No such
dominant group in Europe. Hearst identifying the court with the league.
Attitude of the people “We don’t like the damn Jap who buys a farm and works
harder than I do or who lowers rent.
We don’t like the damn Chinks until after they
had been here a long time, under the exclusion act. They are now popular as
long as they remain one quarter. The Chinese girls who go to village and
learn to be excellent stenographers cannot work in the same office as
whites.
There were bricks segregating the Japanese
introduced in the schools, although the Negros were not segregated.
Alien Land Bill forbade the owning of land by
non citizens. Government would suppress these.
Then Land Law was introduced making it illegal
for persons ineligible for citizenship to own land.
Now the law of California so drastic, a
Japanese who cannot own land will buy it in the name of his native born son
who is a citizen. If land were bought for a minor American child it must be
bought for his benefit and he must receive that benefit through a guardian
who cannot be his parent and must be an American citizen.
Similarly drastic provisions were in the law
against the leasing of land to persons ineligible to citizenship.
Subterfuge made impossible. Exceedingly drastic
law passed by vote of 10 to 1 of the people.
Similar agitation recently against the
Philippinos, including a considerable degree of mob violence. Philippinos
killed worker in the fields and migrant labourer. There is some harvest
every month of the year in California which needs more labour than the
district can supply.
They commit the of fences when there are more
labourers than employment, the Philippinos may get them. Feelings of the
white man must be satisfied first.
2. Caste violation, The essence of a caste is
sex. Legal rule in California against marriage between white and non white.
Philippinos very sexual and white women associates, in defence of caste
line.
Caste system based upon negro is very bitter.
Because Philippinos had dance halls where white girls danced, these halls
were mobbed and the Philippinos driven out of the district.
Attention on Japanese relations and it is in
favour of putting Japanese on a quota. Only 100 a year from Japan. Movement
to prevent immigration - Japanese exclusion league to promote the Japanese
Exclusion Law. Then it changed it’s name. V S Mccarthy has blocked all
efforts at changing the Exclusion Law.
On the question of restoring the Japanese to
the quota business opinion is unanimous. Even the chamber of commerce is for
it and the idealist in the churches against it, the political influences.
At a time of differences we should make this
gesture. No present prospect of putting Japanese on the quota.
American policy towards Manchuria - No change
visible. Considerable relaxation of interest and there are those who accept
a fait accompli, saying that since the Japanese are going to do it anyway
why bother? Very few advocate recognition, we have committed ourselves and
the League of Nations committee itself is against separate recognition.
Japanese are seeking for separate recognition. Now the Japanese are trying
to get the Russians to recognise, getting wedge of one of them recognising,
they expect a stampede.
R - milder version of Hoover, Stimson policy
less aggressive foreign policy. He’s an expert, knows them well, clear and
correct views.
Until the World Court speech R. has never dared
barge into congress. I hope the world court is the beginning of a change.
Policy of neutral rights - not yet accomplished
fact, affects pact very much.
Decisive importance of the World Court struggle
lies in it’s
effect on the Freedom of the Seas. 3 questions
1) World Court;
2) League of Nations;
3) Freedom of the seas.
Bugaboo arguments.
Offer of giving up Freedom of the Seas has been
submitted twice by Norman Davies at the Dis. Comp.
The Foreign affairs in control of two thirds of
the senate and one third less cannot prevent, though one third can obstruct.
No president can go beyond the senate, I don’t know whether it can be done.
But it would be one of the vital steps.
Wilson’s point conceded right of blockade
following international action.
I wonder whether the senate would approve.
Recognition of the international right to blockade aggression. If
international against blockades we will not object to others blockading.
Practical application much more likely to apply to the Pacific because there
are only three major navies in the world.
The only situation in which this could arise on
the old doctrine would have to be blockade imposed by Britain or Japan in
which they were engaged and will not.
That is likely in case of war between Japan and
Russia. That doctrine did bring us into the last war, 1812 nearly brought us
in 1795 when we nearly entered the Napoleonic wars on the British side.
History of the doctrine is that it leads us
into wars across the oceans.
In the Atlantic the doctrine is meaningless. If
we retain the old doctrine Japan is going to be at war with Russia and our
blockade runners are going to smuggle goods to Russia via China and Japan is
going to stop our vessels. That’s the old doctrine.
Absolutely vital to revise the doctrine.
Position can only arise in the Pacific; it destroys our neutrality
completely preposterous doctrine.
Old American stock still of age 1776 to 1867
when the UK disapproved of the democracy in the USA for fear it would arouse
democratic radical feeling in Great Britain.
Then immigrants hostile to Europe.
California in favour of higher type of tariff.
Popular notion that Europe is close to war.
San Francisco January 17
Public enemy Stevens captured! Engineered fatal
Quentin Break! 6 kidnapped, felon slain, warder hurt.
Four convicts staged the most spectacular break
in Saint Quentin’s history yesterday afternoon.
They walked into the wardens home, slugged
warden Holohan and fractured his skull.
They kidnapped three members of the State
Parole board and two prison guards. “Clyde Stevens, elusive bank robber and
San Francisco’s Public Enemy No 1 smuggled into Saint Quentin the four
pistols used in yesterdays prison break.
“The jaws of a police trap he could not escape
closed down at last on Clyde Stevens early this morning, a trap rimmed with
blazing guns.
Lunch time and afternoon dramatised version on
the radio at 7.15, at 5.15 writer told to dramatise it in 15 minute skit
finished it at 6.15 rapid rehearsal and sound effects, then gave it at 7.15.
Johnson the World Court
After the radio talk, talked with elevatorman
and with postman.
“There are two classes of people, I never have
any relations with Philipino’s and Japanese.
If there’s anybody I hate it’s a yellow belly.”
“Where an American has to have $4 for work, a
yellow belly will do it for $1.50. They live 5 families in a room and they
don’t care with who’s wife they sleep”
“1 never talk to them”.
January 18
Sailed from San Francisco on the SS President
Monroe.
TERRIBLE!!!
Storm, storm, huge waves, tossed for days,
homesick but not sea sick. 6 days storm, hard times Winnie on board. Don’t
kick at the coffee, you may be old and weak yourself someday.
Try our eggs, they are fresh from the crow’s
nest this morning. Try our hash, you will find in it anything you want. Try
our fresh peas, 16 to a knife, won’t roll of f, not responsible if you cut
your throats. Try our mule soup, it’s a kick! (0 honeydew! What a melancholy
thing we Canteloupe!)
Cargo:- Old newspapers compressed into paper
mache for railway wheels. Broken glass for Chinese beads, old auto tyres for
rubber boots etc.
Foreign Policy - Red
One reason for naval policy is that the towns
in the West holler for bigger navy and for having the navy in California,
for having high pay-rolls and for the prosperity of the towns.
Artificial - keep the fleet in California. Look
at the fir we sold and timber after the earthquake from Seattle.
War Debts - Red
They’ve called in all the Liberty Bonds, all
the War Debts must be brought in. I had a 1938 Bond which was called in
1933. Friendship with Great Britain worth much more. Returning the war bonds
much faster than the dates on them.
Honolulu -
Arrive.
Japanese Temple, mixture of population, get on
very well together. Japanese boys, Japanese girls in beach pyjamas.
Phillipino boys in hotel chewing gum.
Oldest frame building 1821, before that only
grass houses, Americanisation politics, Democrats threw out Republicans and
threw them from their jobs.
Difference between American and British,
Americans exploit and grab land and change the customs, British don’t take
the land in the Fijians etc, and they believe in the natives keeping their
customs. Thus in the Fijian Islands the natives still have their grass
houses.
You see Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian children
all playing together.
Britannia Street
Because the British Consul who lived on that
street and the Hawaiians have no real name for Britain.
Pass a Japanese Buddhist Temple, most of the
Japs here are Buddhists, some Christians, some Congregationalists and some
Poinsettias - make me think of the South.
Cal - Mr Treach - Japanese treat their women
like chattles, but here under American influence they treat them better. In
Japan you can buy a girl from the parents, Japanese have more interest in
boys, because the boys will be soldiers.
Get Article on The Training of Youth in Japan.
Great copyists. they herd the youngsters in the
Government schools, military is the main subject.
Boys in front, Portuguese, white, Japan, Hawaii
and a Ralf Carte (Jap/Haw & Chinese/Hawaaiin) Black Portuguese.
Black Portugese are discarded from the town,
blacks imported from the Portuguese Islands off Africa for the Sugar cane
plantations here. Higher mountains, 13,000 ft. Feeling of Racialism has
disappeared. Cardiff coal used to come here, but now we use oil for fuel.
Hawaiians same race as the maori’s. Supposed to have come from Tahiti in the
sail canoes. They had double canoes lashed together, they were a race of
hardy navigators.
*** land turn. They are not alarmed here about
Japanese aggression, but much money spent on roads, built on military plans,
military roads, magnificent roads, past banana plantations.
1) Sugar, 2) Pineapple, 3) Third industry -
Tourist, Banana, Coconuts, Dates. Rice but not much, Coffee on Hawaii,
bananas are not irrigated.
Japanese woman with great umbrella,
strawberries sold on side of the road. Chinese pedlar passed, rushing to get
out of the rain, selling tomatos, onions, Chinese squashes.
Papula. rainbow on the water or haze rather
with streak of white surf against the greenish shade.
That’s a royal fishpond, Population was
forbidden to fish certain ponds which could only be fished by the kings.
This is the patrol selected by Pan-American
Airways which will operate in conjunction with the Matson Sterniby Co.
Linburgh coming to take a look round.
The sea is green. Kaneohe Bay (Pan-American
Air) all sorts of colours.
Hawain fishermen trading with spears, after
squids, (devil fish). They get into the cavities in rocks and the fishers
have to have wonderful eyesight to see them.
Notices, both in English and Japanese. Rice
growing in paddies of water. Some rice fields abandoned and idle because
prices fell so much Japanese and chinese imported so much rice, Californian
rice also imported. Taro growing in water.
Poi. - have you any Poi? Yes, apple Poi or
Pumpkin Poi!
Banana trees toppled over by reverse winds.
Trade winds come from the North East. Reverse from the South brings rain,
blowing the tops off buildings, knocks down trees.
Photo’d children near bench.
Mormon temple, white near mormon village, in
practice they are mormon, More missionaries came, fine physique of men.
White posts where Japanese lost life— Fisherman
sitting on the rocks, fishing forgetting waves and dashed into the sea.
Japanese no swimmers, natives could have escaped.
Lo’m, Lo’m. Sa Lo’m. La’valu mullet. (Fish in
Ti leaf) Lau’Lau
- (Pork with Luau or Hawaiian spinach) Moa -
(Chicken with Luau), He’e - (Octopus). L’na’mo’na (Kulkul nut, a relish)
Pa’a’Kai -Salt, O’pi’hi’a - Abalone, Ku’lo’lo - tarioand - cocoanut pudding,
P01 - Staple food - starch, Kalo - taro, U’ala - sweet potato, Banana -
roasted.
U’me’Ke - Hawaiin bowls used for poi, Ca’La -
mash of Ko’a wood used for fruits. Le Ke’Ke - Richard, O’lu’o’lu - your name
-meaning the Knight who is kind.
Maria - Ka’wa’hi’ne’po’ai’mo’ku - Lady who is
going round the isle.
Wong 1294a - akoko - Honolulu - Kuualo treadway
(my beloved) 1136 + 9th ave Honolulu, T.H. *Malihinl mele.
As I strolled along in a mu’ummlu made of Koa
(slippers) and I played a tune on my sweet ukulele and I sang a pretty song
as she danced her sweet Ka’pu with a Wik, wik, smile, and a niu, niu holoko.
Pretty soon by the light of the tropical moon a
main hini did appear, as he strolled hand in hand on the beautiful sand with
a lovely pi’li’ kia, and he softly told her how he’d seen a great big bad
ludu with a red o’pu and a great big hulk, o Lau hu’mu hu’mu nu’ko nu’ko a
pua a swimming along, singing a song, sing sing a song - Kanes and Walunes
and even little Keikii’s sing hoo’ma’lima’pi and a we’la ka ha.
As I strolled along the shore in a muu-muu made
of koa and I played a tune on my sweet ko’le’hao.
(We’re having a hot time in the old bungalow
tonight and making whoopee).
Dr Crawford Philippines in the US
1. Labour unions against labour.
2. Farmers and dairy, the coconut
oil makes a good cocoa butter which is competing with real butter, kind of
margarine.
3. Sugar competition.
Japanese schools
Here they want Philippine labour to come in
have teaching not been advocates of Philippine independence.
There should be an international guarantee that
they would not take possession but Japanese should be allowed to populate
the islands.
Fear of the military mind, if they treat them
as enemies there will be trouble, can’t get under the skin. Admiralty is
paying more attention to the Aleution Islands, attack Tokyo from them, base
on Russian soil. Real reason of commercial bases in Pacific.
Hector Bywater prophesised war in 1933 between
U.S. and Japan.
Air bases - Hawaiian - Medway - Wak - Guam -
Philippines, stepping stones, and the Japanese press is worried, knowing
that in time of war these could be used for war planes.
We can’t protect the Philippines, no
possibility of our fortifying the Philippines, wouldn’t do any good.
I don’t think we’ll fight for the open door, so
no need for a base. We can’t divide our fleet, we can’t leave our coast
unprotected.
I believe that the Philippines should be
neutralised like Switzerland, must not be engaged
in war, must not be used as a base. Must still retain the 1~awaiian
flag with the Union Jack.
S.. President Coolidge
Sailed from Honolulu, January 30, goodbye to
the Treadways.
Amusing incidents, one American asks - “Can you
bring women to your rooms at the Reform Club?”!!!
Mr Cheung (Yulan Ch) & P0.
Pax (3.5) named thus because Mr Cheng was at
the League of Nations, Pax a great admirer of Mickey Mouse.
Cheng - My friend liked ‘stao-te, I thought
that was some Chinese drink until I realised it was Stout!
The rich widow and divorcee (America seems to
be packed full with rich widows).
“Gee, don’t I just want to have adventure! I’d
like to come with you to Manchuria and I’d pay all your expenses” The Jews
she said used to live in a “Crater” in Russia - Poland.
Mr Perry she said was half English and half a
Paraseed!
Mr Perry - Japan wants to conquer India.
Terrific storm, vast waves, but haven’t been
ill.
If done abruptly and tactlessly there might be
internal trouble. Various areas of relatively unused lands in the
Philippines, if they could settle there it would relieve the pressure on
world markets.
Two attitudes in Hawaii, 1) Military and Naval
distrust of the Japanese, fear that they are spies. 2) Modern teachers trust
them. Older generation loyal. Before the 10 year period has expired,
probably the U.S. congress will be persuaded not to let go. They’ll keep
some kind of legionary which will continue to be service of invitation.
Act of congress can be recalled. The present
law can be changed. There will be a conditions added in congress, so that
when actual independence comes, it will be much modified.
(Robins Anderson
General Briant Wells
Alexander Baldwin Building)
Hawaiian sugar planters.
Japanese schools where children go for 1 - 1
1/2 hours per day.
What taught? Language etc. Puzzle.
Military Point of View - Director General, Dean
George
There should be a commission formed in order to
protect us in case of attack.
That’s weak because in case of trouble there’d
be a martial law. It would have a bad psychological effect on the second
generation.
Whole problem centres around the military mind,
if the Japs are treated as enemies there will be trouble.
Fear that the military mind will bungle the
situation by treating the Japs as alien enemies.
General Yeats Stirling says that the Government
should be a commission appointed by the President, i.e. dictatorship. “we
need defence against enemies from within” Doubt of the loyalty of the
Japanese here. Japs enter O T.C. here.
How far is loyalty of the 2nd generation? Older
generation is thoroughly loyal to Japan. Someone in the papers here said
that the Japanese Emperor is not divine, Old Jap wrote to say that the paper
had no right to.
At home I get it dinned into my mind that
loyalty to Japan, that only courage is the courage of the Japanese soldier.
Welch Jap hang at home.
Shintoism is a national religion, can a
Shintoist be a good American citizen? Shintoist believes in the emperor.
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